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Claeren · 07-12-2009, 11:32 PM

City rail transit (LRT in Calgary's case) is the much better use of the same finite dollars.

It moves many many many times more people each and every day and is far from built-out in any city in Canada.

(Calgary's LRT alone is good for what, 36,000,000 trips per year at todays ridership? With Calgary Transit in general supplying over 95,000,000 trips/year? Not to mention with more routes and more cars and more people, etc it would grow from there.)

The comparative cost benefit is not even close, transit makes a bigger difference to ALL stakeholders each and every time you run the numbers, and by a significant margin at that, using proven technologies and based on accepted local travel patterns.

Claeren.

07-12-2009, 11:32 PM	#19
Claeren Franchise Player Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Section 218 Exp:	City rail transit (LRT in Calgary's case) is the much better use of the same finite dollars. It moves many many many times more people each and every day and is far from built-out in any city in Canada. (Calgary's LRT alone is good for what, 36,000,000 trips per year at todays ridership? With Calgary Transit in general supplying over 95,000,000 trips/year? Not to mention with more routes and more cars and more people, etc it would grow from there.) The comparative cost benefit is not even close, transit makes a bigger difference to ALL stakeholders each and every time you run the numbers, and by a significant margin at that, using proven technologies and based on accepted local travel patterns. Claeren. Last edited by Claeren; 07-12-2009 at 11:35 PM.